Prevx Research Division
"BWOY.EXE"
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Associated Malware Groups
The unsafe files using this name are associated with the malware group:
- Malicious Software
File Behavior
BWOY.EXE has been seen to perform the following behavior:
- Can communicate with other computer systems using HTTP protocols
- Injects code into other processes
- Found on infected systems and resists interrogation by security products
- Uses low level functions to hide itself from the user and from system/security processes
- Writes to another Process's Virtual Memory (Process Hijacking)
- This process creates other processes on disk
- This Process Deletes Other Processes From Disk
- Executes a Process
BWOY.EXE has been the subject of the following behavior:
- Executed from Temporary Folders
- Created as a process on disk
- Has code inserted into its Virtual Memory space by other programs
- Terminated as a Process
- Executed as a Process
Country Of Origin
The filename BWOY.EXE was first seen on Mar 11 2010 in the following geographical regions of the Webroot community:
- Dominican Republic on Mar 11 2010
- India on Mar 11 2010
- Thailand on Mar 18 2010
- Mexico on Mar 20 2010
- The United Kingdom on Mar 20 2010
File Name Aliases
BWOY.EXE can also use the following file names:
- YEKHHIIJFG[1].HTM
- RMABLE.EXE
- XTWYYCJ.EXE
- LDRLDU.EXE
- BCEJRBXQ.EXE
- QEOOLQJR.EXE
- OBFLRXY.EXE
- WHSGSQ.EXE
- IVGWLF.EXE
- JFJORW.EXE
- PLESCOW.EXE
- RBDRDBU.EXE
- PIIAMNO.EXE
- GCSMWORV.EXE
- VISR.EXE
- XEKGQER[1].HTM
- 1D51BBB2.TMP
- 53EC3CE4.TMP
- 04E92EE3.TMP
- 51230296.DAT
- 42956397.EXE
Filesizes
The following file size has been seen:
- 22,016 bytes
- 27,648 bytes
- 21,504 bytes
- 22,528 bytes
File Type
The filename BWOY.EXE refers to many versions of an executable program.
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